Posted on 10/14/2020 6:08:50 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The intersection in south Minneapolis where George Floyd died in police custody on May 25 has become a quasi-religious shrine. It is a shrine not just to Floyd, who is honored here as if he were a saint or a martyr, but to the political power of the Black Lives Matter movement and the ascendency of the radical left in this city.
The intersection and the neighborhood around it have been “occupied” for months now. To get to the memorial—or “George Square,” as it’s now called—you must approach on foot. For a block in every direction, the streets are closed to traffic, barricaded by concrete roadblocks and makeshift chevaux de frise. Behind the roadblocks, plywood shields are stacked up next to a tent and an outhouse.
A young man in a pink sweater and green hair greets me as I approach. He informs me that it is Indigenous Peoples Day (formerly Columbus Day), and that there is a healing circle for indigenous peoples underway at the intersection next to the memorial. I am not allowed to take pictures of them, he says. By what authority he orders me not to take pictures, he doesn’t say. So I take pictures.
The memorial itself is a 15-foot black fist erected in the middle of the intersection of East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, festooned roundabout with flowers and signs and graffiti and flags. Every conceivable surface, from the streets and sidewalks and light poles to the buildings and bus shelters and the abandoned Speedway gas station on the corner, is covered in graffiti and posters and overlapping murals.
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‘Protestors’ think that because they are angry, that makes them right.
My mom straightened me out on that, when I was four. They should GROW UP!
How would you like to be a business on that block?
>The memorial itself is a 15-foot black fist erected in the middle of the intersection of East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue
A 15-foot fentanyl needle would be more appropriate.
Historically when a society ceases to be united by a reasonable social and cultural consensus, civil war almost always occurs. Does any rational person now beleive that such a consensus exists today in America?
The marxismus is a religion (Without God). Saints, shrines, holidays, bibles, bible classes, services, ministers, bishops, faithfuls, heretics, human sacrifices.
Where’s the memorial to Justine Damond, murdered by a somali cop in Minneapolis?
Real leadership would send a pair of front end loaders in to remove the debris from the public taxpayer funded streets, followed by law enforcement to arrest anyone obstructing.
The idea that anyone can deprive the rest of us, the use of our public streets and spaces, needs to be extinguished with a show of force.
Protests are one thing, this is anarchy.
The firewood stacked next to the gas pumps is a nice touch.
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"Minnesota Not-So-Nice-Anymore-For-A-Damn-Good-Reason"
I thought he died after they got him to the police station, not out in the street. Or did he make it to a hospital still alive?
I have a cousin who grew up in suburban Minneapolis. During college she thought about becoming a Minneapolis cop and did some type of internship as a meter maid there. Her experience doing that caused her to pursue a career in real estate instead. Smart girl!
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